THE SHIFT KEY ISN'T DOING A THING. THE CAPS LOCK BUTTON IS ON. IT'S ITS JOB. IT'S MY FINGERS DOING THE WORKING.
WHAT I SAID OR WROTE WAS NOT ENOUGH TO GET ME MUTED. BUT I ENJOYED THE COMMUNITY ON CHESS.COM AND OFTEN GAVE COMPLIMENTS TO PEOPLE. I'M NOT PAYING FOR CHESS.COM TO ACT LIKE KAREN REDDIT MODERATORS - AS I ALREADY SAID.
YOU DON'T EVEN DO LESSONS ON HERE. PERHAPS YOU WOULD IF THEY WERE ACTUALLY GOOD - AND LOOK AT MY PROFILE. SEE ALL THE LESSONS I'VE DONE ON THIS WEBSITE.
THEY ARE NOT GOOD.
YOU WANT TO ACT LIKE A KAREN REDDIT MODERATOR WHEN I'M PAYING $100+ YEARLY FOR YOUR SITE?
You thought you may do some inappropriate stuff without consequences if you pay?
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I CANCELED MY MEMBERSHIP ON YOUR SITE. HERE'S WHY.
1) I DIDN'T APPRECIATE YOU BANNING ME FROM POSTING FOR 24 HOURS BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT I DIDN'T FOLLOW "COMMUNITY GUIDELINES". MAYBE INSTEAD OF BANNING SOMEONE FOR SHOWING SOME PERSONALITY (AND I DIDN'T EVEN INSULT ANYONE), YOU SHOULD INSTEAD REVISE YOUR COMMUNITY GUILDLINES AND NOT BE SO SENSITIVE. TRY NOT BEING SUCH KARENS TO YOUR PAYING CUSTOMERS.
THE PROBLEM IS YOU, NOT ME. YOU WANT TO ACT LIKE A KAREN REDDIT MODERATOR WHEN I'M PAYING $100+ YEARLY FOR YOUR SITE? NOPE. I'M GONE.
2) YOUR LESSONS ARE NOT GOOD. YOUR LESSONS ARE BAD. YOUR LESSONS ARE CONSISTENTLY BAD. YOUR OPENINGS COURSES ARE THE VERY WORST IN THE WORLD.
YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO SHOW PHOTOS OF CHESS PLAYERS EVERY 2 MINUTES IN VIRTUALLY ALL OF THEM?? HERE'S ME, TRYING TO CONCENTRATE ON THE CHESS POSITIONS ON THE BOARD, AND WHAT IS BEING PLAYED, AND TRYING TO FOLLOW ALONG - TRYING TO MEMORIZE THE POSITIONS AND GET MY PATTEN RECOGNITION DOWN.
AND HERE'S YOU, CHESS.COM, SHOWING ANOTHER PHOTO OF HIKARU NAKAMURA, THE SAME PHOTO OF HIM YOU SHOWED JUST 2 MINUTES AGO. AND HERE'S A PHOTO OF MAGNUS CARLSEN. AND HERE'S A PHOTO OF FABIANO CARUANA. AND HERE'S THE SAME PHOTO OF MAGNUS CARLSEN. PHOTO AFTER PHOTO AFTER PHOTO AFTER PHOTO.
YOUR OPENING COURSES ARE NOT OPENING COURSES. THEY ARE PHOTO ALBUMS.
YOU THINK I'M EXAGGERATING? GO WATCH YOUR OPENING TROMPOWSKY COURSE. YOU INTERRUPT AND COVER UP THE BOARD BY SHOWING PHOTOS OF CHESS PLAYERS 17 TIMES. 17 TIMES YOU COVER UP THE CHESS BOARD TO SHOW PHOTOS OF CHESS PLAYERS. YOU DO THIS 17 TIMES IN ONE OPENING COURSE. IN ONE OPENING COURSE YOU COVERED UP THE CHESS BOARD AND CHESS POSITIONS TO SHOW PHOTOS OF CHESS PLAYERS, NOT ONCE, NOT TWICE, BUT SEVENTEEN TIMES.
https://www.chess.com/lessons/learn-the-trompowsky-and-torre-attacks
SERIOUSLY. ALL YOU MANAGEMENT OF CHESS.COM, ALL YOU STAFF, GO WATCH YOUR TROMPOWSKY COURSE. GO SEE AND UNDERSTAND EXACTLY HOW NOT TO MAKE AN OPENING COURSE - OR ANY COURSE. GO SEE HOW YOU MADE A PHOTO ALBUM DISGUISED AS AN OPENING, CHESS.COM. YOUR FIRST OPENING COURSES (THE QUEENS GAMBIT, RUY LOPEZ) WEREN'T LIKE THIS AT ALL. WHOEVER DECIDED TO RUIN YOUR OPENING COURSES BY TURNING THEM INTO PHOTO ALBUMS SHOULD BE FIRED FROM THEIR POSITION, EVEN IF ITS YOUR CEO.
UNLESS YOUR OPENING COURSES ARE REDONE TO BE OPENING COURSES INSTEAD OF ~~~>>> PHOTO ALBUMS <<<~~~ (WHICH IS THE PRIMARY THING I WAS INTERESTED IN WHEN I SIGNED UP), YOU'RE NOT HAVING ANY OF MY MONEY.
LOOK. YOU TRIED TO MAKE GOOD OPENING LESSON COURSES SO PEOPLE COULD LEARN A LOT OF DIFFERENT CHESS OPENINGS, AND YOU COMPLETELY FAILED. YOU MADE PHOTO ALBUMS INSTEAD. YOU MADE SURE ALL YOUR VIEWERS DIDN'T GET CHESS POSITIONS BURNED INTO THEIR HEAD - BUT INSTEAD GOT PHOTOS OF HIKARU NAKAMURA AND DING LIREN BURNED INTO THEIR HEADS. YOU COMPLETELY FAILED.
FAILURES.
3) YOUR LESSONS ARE STILL NOT GOOD AND YOU BARELY RELEASE LESSONS ANYMORE. WATCHING AGADMATOR ON YOUTUBE IS BETTER THAN ANY COURSE YOU'VE EVER COME OUT WITH, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THIS COURSE
https://www.chess.com/lessons/every-pawn-structure-explained
THIS COURSE RIGHT HERE IS LITERALLY ONE OF THE ONLY GOOD COURSES YOU'VE EVER COME OUT WITH. AND EVEN THEN, YOU COVER UP THE CHESS BOARD BY SHOWING PHOTO AFTER PHOTO AFTER PHOTO OF CHESS PLAYERS. AT LEAST IT'S BETTER THAN YOUR OPENINGS COURSES, WHICH ARE HORRIBLE.
4) I TRIED LOTUS CHESS. THAT'S IT. GAME OVER. LOTUS CHESS IS 1000X BETTER THAN YOUR WEBSITE. IT IS WHAT I WANTED. THEY CREATED IT. YOU DIDN'T. IT IS FAR, FAR BETTER THAN YOUR WEBSITE. IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE.
THESE ARE THE REASONS I CANCELED MY DIAMOND MEMBERSHIP. NOW YOU KNOW. I RECOMMEND TO OTHERS TO CANCEL THEIR MEMBERSHIP. YOUR WEBSITE IS NOT WORTH THE MONEY. THERE ARE TOO MANY BETTER, FASTER WAYS TO IMPROVE. YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE ABOUT WATCHING AGADMATOR ON YOUTUBE? HE DOESN'T COVER UP THE CHESS BOARD BY SHOWING ME A GDDAMN PHOTO OF A CHESS PLAYER EVER 2 MINUTES WHILE I'M WATCHING THE GAME.
Facts!